Scale safely and securely with proactive risk management that unlocks your product's fullest potential.
Whether you're piloting a new product in a few classrooms or scaling a product to millions of learners across the nation, ensuring safety and trust are paramount, but so often the means to achieving that safety and trust are treated as after-thoughts, rather than proactive risk management.
We help education technology scale safely and securely in a way that not only minimizes risk, but actually unlocks a product's fullest potential for usability and scalability, ultimately maximizing the return on investment.
Our team of child and student data privacy experts can help you navigate federal, state and local data privacy laws and regulations. SETA-ED's team of privacy experts works closely with clients to ensure that project terms, including contracts and R&D grants, align with IRB requirements, data sharing agreements, and other applicable privacy laws and regulations. Our team continuously tracks and analyzes federal, state, and local legislative and regulatory landscapes to identify developments that may impact the R&D field, enabling us to provide comprehensive risk analysis and mitigation strategies for our clients. We provide state-level privacy assessments to identify state-specific laws and regulations, which are essential for vetting potential district, research, or vendor partnerships.
R&D is inherently high risk, high reward, therefore project and portfolio managers need to identify risks, categorize them and ensure effective mitigation strategies are put into place. Our risk analysis process provides program and project teams support in navigating ethical, security, privacy and safety risks. R&D in the U.S. is held to a high level of ethical standards, especially when the R&D involves vulnerable populations, such as children. SETA-ED provides protocols and practices for ensuring there is a high level of ethical rigor across portfolios. We provide a streamlined process for funding new ventures, R&D teams, or edtech companies, with the necessary due diligence to ensure that teams are aware of and meet threshold requirements for child safety, ethical research practices, data privacy and data protection. This process is aligned to easily accommodate both 'traditional' research (appropriate to standard IRBs) and 'non-traditional' research/R&D such as UX/UI and design-based research.
Our privacy and security scans assess the data collected through an application or passed over a network, scrutinizing both its usage and compliance with legal standards for children's privacy. These scans meticulously evaluate whether the application's data handling practices adhere to stringent privacy regulations designed to protect minors. By ensuring legal compliance, these evaluations play a crucial role in safeguarding children's privacy in digital environments.
SETA-ED acts as a trusted advisor and program manager to guide our clients in designing and implementing robust information security programs, and navigating 3rd-party compliance audits (e.g., SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, CMMC). We help clients assess their current information security readiness, implement or improve their technical and operational security controls, collect evidence of control implementation and effectiveness, and guide clients end-to-end through 3rd-party audits. SETA-ED's team of student data privacy experts, network and security engineers, and program managers have extensive experience in building and managing safe and secure data infrastructures and ensuring compliance with the specific standards required for operational readiness.
SETA-ED's privacy team is a mix of legal and technical experts, who work closely as a data governance team to implement and automate data privacy and protections. We automate compliance and data privacy assurance through the design and use of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs). Depending on the data and the project at hand, a number of PETs may be designed and leveraged (e.g., PII vaults, automated data de-identification, synthetic data generation).
SETA-ED has developed an AI Safety Framework to assess and mitigate potential risks from student use of AI in operational contexts. Our AI Safety Framework includes a Risk Assessment Matrix, an AI Testing and Evaluation Toolkit, and Guardrail Development and Implementation.
Our team offers customizable security and privacy trainings tailored to your organization's specific needs. These comprehensive programs equip your staff with the knowledge and skills necessary to maintain compliance with data protection regulations, implement best practices for safeguarding student information, and foster a culture of security awareness throughout your organization.
Let's discuss how we can help you build proactive risk management into your educational technology.
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